HOW IMMIGRANTS IMPACT THEIR HOMELANDS by Susan Eva Eckstein (Editor), Adil Najam (Editor) ( 9780822353959 )

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Title:

HOW IMMIGRANTS IMPACT THEIR HOMELANDS

By:

Susan Eva Eckstein (Editor), Adil Najam (Editor)

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0822353954

ISBN 13:

9780822353959

Publisher:

DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

5 April, 2013

Pages:

280

Description:

This collection examines the economic, social, and cultural effects that immigrants have had on their home countries, including China, Cuba, India, Mexico, Mozambique, the Philippines, and Turkey.

Synopsis:

How Immigrants Impact Their Homelands examines the range of economic, social, and cultural impacts immigrants have had, both knowingly and unknowingly, in their home countries. The book opens with overviews of the ways migrants become agents of homeland development. The essays that follow focus on the varied impacts immigrants have had in China, India, Cuba, Mexico, the Philippines, Mozambique, and Turkey. One contributor examines the role Indians who worked in Silicon Valley played in shaping the structure, successes, and continued evolution of India's IT industry. Another traces how Salvadoran immigrants extend U.S. gangs and their brutal violence to El Salvador and neighboring countries. The tragic situation in Mozambique of economically desperate emigres who travel to South Africa to work, contract HIV while there, and infect their wives upon their return is the subject of another essay. Taken together, the essays show the multiple ways countries are affected by immigration. Understanding these effects will provide a foundation for future policy reforms in ways that will strengthen the positive and minimize the negative effects of the current mobile world.Contributors. Victor Agadjanian, Boaventura Cau, Jose Miguel Cruz, Susan Eva Eckstein, Kyle Eischen, David Scott FitzGerald, Natasha Iskander, Riva Kastoryano, Cecilia Menjivar, Adil Najam, Rhacel Salazar Parrenas, Alejandro Portes, Min Ye

Illustrations:

6 tables, 11 figures

Publication:

Imprint:

Duke University Press

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Returnable

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